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living wage a wage adequate to permit a wage earner to live and support a family in reasonable comfort How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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The cocoa beans are bought through the Rainforest Alliance, which helps ensure that farmers receive living wages and that the beans are shade grown without damaging the surrounding rainforest. Aldermen and union officials who supported the big-box ordinance vow that they'll keep fighting for living wages, but there is no consensus on what path such reform should take. In China, Mexico and increasingly Central America and South and South East Asia producing-companies often from yet some other country pay below living wages to mostly female workers herded into appalling, cramped dormitories and factories. |
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